Biography:

Dr. Vincent van Ginneken is the scientific director of Bluegreen-technologies in Heelsum, the Netherlands, a think-tank organisation that focuses on biomedical, agricultural, and seaweed biotechnology. At the age of 33, he received his first PhD from Leiden University's Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, followed by postdoctoral studies that resulted in a second PhD from Wageningen University's Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. He is currently working as a researcher at the Optical Molecular Imaging Department of Radiology, Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, Netherlands, on lipidomics-based cancer/tumor research using a Systems Biology approach.